Wake up folks: nobody with power gives a fuck about you.

[NS2012]

42. Human Psychology is involved of course.

Humanity  is evolving.  Looking back we can see that the rate of evolution is accelerating, but we're still caught up in some of our primitive ways.

Evolutionary progress for humans involves growing out of our primitive states of awareness and behavior into more enlightened and spiritual states of awareness and behavior.

Examples of primitive states of awareness and behavior can be found in the childlike tendencies of humans such as greed and selfishness.  The political problems we're facing are due to this fundamental aspect of human nature; we are children, or monkeys if you like.  Our problems can be traced all the way back to each and every instance of selfishness and greed performed by individuals every day.  Greed is one of the 7 deadly sins.  It corrupts.  And almost everyone is guilty of it.

Examples of enlightened and spiritual states of awareness and behavior include compassion, forgiveness and altruism.  These are qualities exhibited and encouraged by the leaders of almost every world religion.

The main ideological distinction between Republicans and Democrats relates to this point.  Democratic priorities include things like welfare, education, ecological responsibility, civil rights - all of which are more closely related to the elightened side of the scale than the primitive side.  The main Republican priority is the right of an individual to obtain and maintain wealth, with as little governmental regulation and taxation as possible - which is more closely related to the childlike, primitive side of the scale.

Take a look at the issue of Health Care Reform; Obama worked his ass off his first 2 years in office to create a better, more fair Health Care system, despite the political unpopularity of doing so.  Now insurance companies can't deny people coverage due to pre-existing conditions, poor people will have access to affordable health care, and people can remain covered under their parents policies until they're 26 - all of which are good, humane things.  Why do Republicans want it repealed?  Because it costs too much.  They don't want to sacrifice any of their personal wealth to help those less fortunate - which is selfish.